Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 27.1.9
Caption: School Must Toilet Train Students
AN ALARMING number of first-time students at Queensland schools are not rpeoperly toilet trained, it has been revealed.
Queensland Association of State School Principals Norm Hart has urged parents and families to take responsbility for their children.
"We have increasing numbers of children in schools that aren't toilet-trained," Mr Hart said.
"Ten years ago, you never heard of kids going to school not toilet-trained."
His call for parents to be held accountable comes as the state's education system faces an unprecedented shake-up, according to a leading educator.
Queensland Catholic Education Commission executive director Mike Byrne said the system faced a host of major challenges, including:..
Headline: Tourists strip off for SA 'dream job'
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 27.1.9
Caption: Nude Begets Dream Job
SOUTH Australia Tourism has launched a viral marketing campaign, giving tourists the chance to star in their own commercials to promote the state. Dubbed Stars of South Australia, the South Australia Tourism Commission promotion – in conjunction with STA Travel – involves UK residents filming a one minute video about travelling to SA.
The prize is a trip to South Australia which is filmed by a professional crew and beamed back to the UK via an online blog.
SATC UK-based marketing manager Neil Saunders said the promotion was devised to attract the sector which was still inclined to travel despite the economic downturn.
"It primarily was aimed at the backpackers and adventure market; in the current economic climate, they are a strong market because people will be looking to take a gap year or get away from it," Mr Saunders said.
Headline: 'Villages' Retirement Home Is Widower's Sex Paradise
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 26.1.9
Caption: Paradise By The False Teeth
It's 11 p.m. at the Bourbon Street Bar, and Roselyn's gyrating her hips to the blues band, Sue's sipping a cocktail and flirting with her new boyfriend, and Alan is scanning the crowd for cute girls.
"See those two?" a buxom blonde asks, pointing to an elegant couple at the bar. "They were caught having sex in their golf cart a few weeks ago. It happens a lot!"
Welcome to ground zero for geriatrics who are seriously getting it on.
It's a Thursday night at one of a half-dozen hot spots at the 20,000-acre Central Florida complex called The Villages, the largest gated retirement community in America — and one of the most popular destinations for New Yorkers in their golden years — where the female-to-male ratio runs 10 to 1.
It's a widower's paradise, and the word on the street is that there's a big black market for Viagra....
Headline: A Big Fat Ah-Choo! Obesity Bug 'You Can Catch'
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 26.1.9
Caption: Fat Catch
Obesity can be "caught" as easily as a common cold from other people's coughs, sneezes and dirty hands, scientists said Monday.
The condition has been linked to a highly-infectious virus which causes sniffles and sore throats.
Nikhil Dhurandhar, an associate professor at The Pennington Biomedical Research Center, in Baton Rouge, La., said the virus, known as AD-36, infects the lungs then whisks around the body, forcing fat cells to multiply and also causing sore throats.
"When this virus goes to fat tissue it replicates, making more copies of itself and in the process increases the number of new fat cells, which may explain why the fat tissue expands and why people get fat when they are infected with this virus," Dhurandhar said.
In one test, a third of obese people had the rare and highly contagious virus compared to just 11 percent of thinner people. Weight gain can last three months until the body has built up resistance to the bug.
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